what is it about steam engine chugging sound that

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Anon07/05/26, 01:43No.2077363

Most of us were exposed to pro-train propaganda as young children. These trains were often presented as friendly, helpful, harmless, energetic steam trains. Later in life as we discovered the responsibilities and struggles of adult life, we found out trains weren't like that. They were bigger, somehow less friendly, more clinical. If we are not careful, they will try to kill us. They don't always go where we want and when we rely upon them, we're often disappointed. And if we try to eke some joy out of them, when we succeed at all, it's a dull joy. Not like before.Seeing and hearing a real life train behaving as trains did when we were young and ignorant of the horrible world tricks us into thinking, or more correctly, feeling, that a non-horrible world is possible. We encounter them rarely enough that this is something that happens reliably. Everything else becomes irrelevant and there's just the steam train. Like being a child again.

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Anon07/05/26, 02:37No.2077367

the sound you're hearing is just steam moving through an intake and exhaust valve

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Anon07/05/26, 09:27No.2077376

It's a machine with fire in its belly, breathing as it works hard.

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Anon07/07/26, 16:59No.2077470

steam engines CHUFF it's diesel engines that chug

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Anon07/29/26, 20:39No.2078628

it's fire and water turning to steam like at home on a woodstove

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Anon07/30/26, 13:26No.2078665

Because believe it or not, steam engines are living, breathing creatures. Now I want you to imagine the immense sound this guy was making back in the day as a helper over this 4% grade

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Anon08/29/26, 23:27No.2080797

Reminder of days gone by

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Anon08/30/26, 23:56No.2080909

it's the sound of reliable engineering done by White men.

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